Dr. Ho Esta Mo E Hahne

Biography

Ho'esta Mo’e’hahne is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). They specialize in Critical Indigenous Studies, focusing on Indigenous literatures in North America and queer trans Indigenous studies. Their work critically engages with themes of decolonization, gender and sexuality studies, and settler colonial studies, while also exploring environmental humanities. Mo’e’hahne is a decolonial scholar, analyzing visual cultures and the intersections between queer and gender-expansive theory and Indigenous feminisms. Their upcoming book project delves into 20th and 21st-century queer trans Indigenous literatures and seeks to map decolonial sexualities, genders, and ecologies within the context of settler colonial biopolitics in Canada and the United States. Among their notable publications are articles in esteemed journals such as Amerikanastudien, Social Text Online, and Western American Literature, where they critically reflect on the complexities of colonization and identity through a scholarly lens.

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